a picture is worth a thousand words
so a thousand pictures must be worth a million words....
Photo Album Chapters
Max
blackman murray russo
Blackman Murray Russo at An die Musik
2009
Recording "The Coastal Suite" @ Water Music, Hoboken, NJ. March, 2013BMR with Donny McCaslin & Rogerio Boccato
BMR at Boordy VineyardsSeptember, 2023
BMR Recording Turning PointBennett Studios, Englewood, NJAugust, 2009
Coastal Suite @ ShapeshifterBrooklyn, NY. October 2013
Recording Sacred SpacesTemple B'nai IsraelEaston, MD, June 2021
BMR with Donny McCaslin & Rogerio BoccatoAn die Musik, December 2012
BMR with Gilad HeckslemanRecording Chapter Three, June 2016Skyline/Charlestown Road StudiosHampton, NJ
At Avaloch Farm Music Institute
With Roy Battle and the Altones, around 1989Papa Al Carter, Roy Battle, Artie Dicks, MM, Denny Davis
With Giacomo Gates, 2021
Private Event, 2025
gig Pics
With Uptown Vocal Jazz QuartetLake Anna Jazz Festival, September 2024
The Dragonfly BoysWith Van Williamson, April 2026
With Chuck Redd, Ken Peplowski and Clairdee SingerThe Mainstay, November 2013
Fred Hughes Triowith Kim Jun & Jeongsik Lee, 2001
MARS 4-Tet. Murray, Antoniuk, Russo, Soviero - 2013
Rich Shemaria and Combo NuvoNYU DC Campus - 2023
Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet, Lake Anne Plaza, 2016
Tony Banda & Maxito
Latin Grammy, 2008Best Latin Jazz Album
Lisa Rich, with David Kane, MM, Dave Ballou 2021
Barat Brass, 2021
Mourning a freshly fallen oak tree
Raggs and the All Stars, early 2000s
Sin Miedo, WPFW Studios, 2006
Savannah Harris, 2015
Hanging with Baltimore Jazz RoyaltyQuincy Phillips, MM, Alex Norris, Alan Blackman, Warren Wolf - 2015
Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet, Demiero Jazz Fest - 2014
With Reuben Brown - 2017
Steve Herberman, Monty Alexander & MM - 2019
musical theatre
There are many shows included here, but it is a partial list. I don't have photos from all the shows I've played - lucky you!
With playwright John Weidman
Into the Woods Orchestra with Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
The Music Man, ASL Version, Olney Theatre - 2022
Chita Rivera
Concert For America - 2017
Bernadette Peters
Joel Gray
Crazy For You, Signature Theatre - 2018
Blackbeard, Signature Theatre - 2019
She Loves Me, Signature Theatre - 2022
Grand Hotel, Signature Theatre - 2019
Pacific Overtures, Signature Theatre
Billy Elliot, Signature Theatre - 2018
South Pacific Orchestra, AKA Space Force Band
Carmen, Olney Theatre - 2016
Sweeney Todd, Olney Theatre - 2017
Endgame, Baltimore Center Stage - 2017
Los Otros,Everyman Theatre (sub) 2017
Broadway In the Park, Wolf Trap, 2026
South Pacific, Olney Theatre - 2018
Broadway in the Park, Wolf Trap - 2025
Broadway in the Park, Wolf Trap -2024
With John Kander
videos
Navy Music
Navy Basic TrainingGreat Lakes, IL.1979
Had to put this in the practice room window to get credit for practicing
School of Music GraduationI'm in the back, center, only Navy guy
Probably playing a ship arrival or departure, Pearl Harbor, 1980
Playing at Barber's Point Naval Air Station, 1980
Pacific Fleet Band's rock group, "Tsunami" at the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor's Center
Combo gig at the Hale Koa in Waikiki
PacFlt Band, supporting the Officer Wive's Club annual talent show/fundraiser Mardi Gras
Pacific Fleet Band, 1980
Combo gig at the Commander In Chief Pacific's Qurters (CINCPAC - 4 Star Admiral)Pearl Harbor, HI
Tsunami
Family Appreciation Day concert,Tripler Hospital, Honolulu
Tsunami, 1981
Tsunami, enhanced, 1981USS Arizona Memorial Visitor's Center
Special Project Showband, 1981Pearl Harbor
With Long Island Sound,Northeast Navy Band, Newport, RI. 1982
Long Island Sound,Fleet Week, USS Intrepid. New York City, 1982Yes, those are Playboy Bunnies.
Freefall, Navy Days, Winter Harbor, ME1983
At Mardi Gras in New Orleans, as a member of the Naval Academy Band, meeting up with the bass player that auditioned me while in high school. 1985
Naval Academy Band, Electric BrigadeSome high school, 1986
USNA Band Electric Brigade, flying somewhere
A uniquie part of duty at USNA, we presented two theatrical productions for kids each year. I lost count of how many shows I was in.In this photo, I'm the sidekick of the Grinch Who Stole Music. So low-budget, but so much fun.
Playing "Gaston" in a concert version of Beauty and the Beast on the Annapolis City Dock.
Electric Brigade, 1987/88
Electric Brigade in Bermuda
Electric Brigade, playing out of town. Our pop concerts we usually wore polo or rugby shirts. This gig, a reception for The Blue Angels, was in dress uniform...which I had left back in Annapolis. I played, hiding behind my amp.
Electric Brigade playing a noontime concert in the courtyard of NSA
When on tour, Electric Brigade would travel in these jumpsuits. Folks often questioned "what are you guys?" Sometimes we'd tell people "The Navy's Enlisted Astronaut Program" At the Central PA Air Show. Seeing the NASA booth, we posed in front of it with a sign stating that we were "Enlisted Astronauts" much to the delight of show attendees.
1992 ish
Max & Frankalways together
For fun, playing Bari in the USNA Band Saxophone Ensemble
USNA Band Concert Band,, 1993
The Next Wave, Key West, FL. 1992
USNA Band. I'm in the top row, on the right end.
Pres. George H. Bush's Departure from Andrews AFB, following President Bill Clinton's Inauguration. 1993
USNA Band's Crabtowne Stompers at Fleet Week, San Francisco, CA. 1990
CPO Selectee Charge BookIYKYK
USS Chief MCM-14 CommissioningNorfolk, VA, 1994Entire band comprised of Chiefs who traveled from around the globe to play this.
My son Aaron in the bell of my helicon, 11 months old here in 1995. This photo was on the cover of the Int'l Tuba Journal in 1996, and was on display in USNA Superintendent ADM Charles R Larson's home.
With Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright
The Day the Bass Players Took Over the World
The Superintendent's ComboAnnapolis City Dock Concert, 1999
Bay Bop Jazz Quartet. 1999My final Navy road trip was with this group.
Retirement memento from ADM Larson.
My Navy Retirement Ceremony, 1999Frank wrapping it up in a bow.
A few years after retiring, at the USNA Band Alumni Concert at the City Dock. 2013?